[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The Eric Adams administration bused dozens of migrants to the makeshift tent facility at the Floyd Bennett Center in Brooklyn on Sunday
- Many refused to stay and went back to The Roosevelt Hotel
- DailyMail.com learned some of these families were sent to hotels again
A Bolivian migrant has called out fellow asylum seekers who refused to stay at a newly-built $20.8M tent shelter as New York City has ran out of hotel rooms.
The Eric Adams administration bused dozens of migrants to the makeshift tent facility at the Floyd Bennett Center in Brooklyn on Sunday - in the city's latest effort to keep up with a surge of asylum seekers that has seen over 139,000 arrive since last Spring.
But many of the families hopped right back on the bus after seeing the facility, and some were at The Roosevelt Hotel on Monday asking to be sent to a different shelter.
The 21-year-old woman from Bolivia - who has been staying at the shelter at the Randall's Island tent shelter for one month - said the conditions at tent facilities are not idea but she doesn't understand migrants who are complaining.
'They say they want a room but nobody asked for them to come here,' she told DailyMail.com on Monday.
Previously only single adults were being sent to tent shelters, and hotel rooms were reserved for families. Sunday was the first time the city sent families to the a tent-style shelter.
DailyMail.com spoke to a Venezuelan family who was sent to the Floyd Bennett Center on Sunday but refused to stay, claiming the facility was not appropriate for children.
'It was just like being at a migrant detention center, the beds were cots and it just wasn't a place for children so we immediately came back,' the Venezuelan mother who asked to not be named told DailyMail.com outside The Roosevelt Hotel.
'We didn't even know where we were going... the workers here who have been so kind didn't even know where we were headed, some even apologized to us today,' she added.
The family returned to The Roosevelt Hotel and was relocated to Kings Hotel in Brooklyn, one of dozens of hotels that have been turned into shelters to house migrants.
However, a spokesperson with the mayor's office told DailyMail.com these migrant families were allowed to return to their previous shelters because they had already been staying there and their children has started school.
In the future, those who do not want to stay at their assigned shelter will be asked to sign a waiver saying they agree to no longer be under the care of NYC, which has a right to shelter law. 
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